Minimum Required Mods

[Guest Denver Dave]

Minimal Required Mods

It may be that many of us start out thinking we won't do any mods and then some creep in - either because of functionality issues or to correct what we consider bugs. It takes me a couple of hours to make the modifications in situations where the block of code I modified has not changed and who knows how long if the logic has changed. I mark each block of my code with a beginning and ending comment flag that I can search for and also keep a list of modules changed.

I thought it would be interesting to learn what mods that others think enough of to bother to apply after every new version of Cubecart 3.

Here are mine:

(1) includes/functions.inc.php

Add a function to allow the sorting of 2 dimendional arrays like the arrays used to build the selection dropdown boxes.

(2) admin/categories/index.php

Various blocks to sort the admin category list by category name and the category dropdown box for the parent category in the category maintenance screen

(3) admin/products/index.php

Various blocks to sort the product list by product name by default and sort the category dropdown box in the product maintenance screen.

(4) So far I have brought forward my template set unchanged, but may have to be changed in some updates.

(5) I'm not sure if it is in the above or somewhere else, but I also keep the mod for category description working as well as modifications to display the sub-category thumbnails.

I suppose I should run each new minor version without mods first before modifying to make sure that I still need the modification.

I am making the above changes with every update. What modifications do others think enough of to keep applying?